These activities provide the poor families with a dependable source of income.

He found the banquet hall at last, and the only dependable source of food in the castle.

Until fairly recently, the military was the only dependable source of trained managers for business or government.

Later she used magnets to create motion, and finally chose wind as a more dependable source.

At that time, pew rentals provided a dependable source of income for a church.

"The problem with certain brands is finding dependable sources of supply," he wrote to me in a follow-up e-mail message.

Or so Geordi had been told, and by no less dependable a source than the first officer himself.

The alternative is a return to dependence on sales taxes, a far less dependable source of revenue.

But it is also a handsome plant, a dependable source of cut flowers and very nearly unkillable.

Once irrigation was introduced in 1935, the farm had a more dependable source of crops.